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Introduction
ILLUST – My understanding of being a father vs. what fatherhood is really like.
My encounter with this little child transformed my thinking and transformed me.
This is a passage about worship.
The Samaritan woman has an encounter with Jesus that leaves her changed.
jn4
Worship has no boundaries.
(1-6)
Jesus talks to the woman about worship during her everyday activities.
- Jesus was talking about worship in a place that the (Jewish) religious despised.
There is no sacred / secular divide.
There is no ‘place for Jesus’ and ‘place for everything else.’
There is no division in the world like that - the only place a division like this could exist is in your heart.
The only boundaries set on how / when we worship are boundaries we set - not God.
The bad news:
you can’t play ‘follower of Jesus’ on Sunday and follow the world on Monday.
The good news:
You can leverage your everyday for worship.
(This is the first ‘water cooler talk’)
**You can leverage your everyday for worship.
(This is the first ‘water cooler talk’)
- Jesus was talking about worship in a place that the (Jewish) religious despised.
Jesus was talking about worship in a place that the (Jewish) religious despised.
The places that have Jesus the least are the places that need Jesus the most
More often than not, the places that have Jesus the least are the places that are avoided by the religious the most.
The Jews believed the Samaritans were spiritually wrong, and yet, Jesus chose to speak with this woman about God rather than avoid her.
Are there places you would rather go around than go through?
People you would rather avoid than speak with because they don’t know Jesus or are different from you?
jn 4:
Worship is possible for everyone through Jesus.
(7-15)
*Possible for EVERYONE
A woman from Samaria came. . .
The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
This woman already had three strikes against her:
Woman
Samaritan
Adulterer
And yet, Jesus believes she is worthy of his time.
*Through JESUS
John may intend a contrast between the woman of this narrative and Nicodemus of ch. 3.
He was learned, powerful, respected, orthodox, theologically trained; she was unschooled, without influence, despised, capable only of folk religion.
He was a man, a Jew, a ruler; she was a woman, a Samaritan, a moral outcast.
And both needed Jesus.
If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
There is nothing this woman could do about being a woman
She can’t help where she was born as a Samaritan
She can’t change the stigma of her past
Jesus doesn’t write her off.
Because, through Jesus, worship (a restored relationship, a redeemed past) is possible for everyone, but it is only possible through Jesus.
Only Jesus has the ability to make her status as a woman and her place as a despised race a non-issue.
Only Jesus is able to cleanse her from her sins and redeem her from the stigma and guilt which is keeping her from being able to truly worship God.
Gal 3:28
Jesus did all this by meeting with HER.
He didn’t make her change before he would speak with her.
He entered into her shame and pain to speak with her.
At this point though, the woman was more concerned about what she could give to Jesus than about asking Jesus for what she needed.
The woman was more concerned about what she could give to Jesus than about asking Jesus for what she needed.
No on e is beyond the reach of Jesus.
ILLUST - Mass murderer coming to Jesus in prison or rock star turning to Jesus after a life of drugs and sex.
NO ONE is beyond the reach of Jesus - Jesus will go anywhere and talk to anyone to show them how to worship God through Jesus.
The real question is, as his followers, are we really willing to do the same?
Maybe you identify with the woman:
you’re at the well by yourself because you are alone - either because of the choices you’ve made or the ones that were given to you.
you have this mistaken idea that others are more able or more worthy to worship and be close to God.
Who is on your list of ‘lost causes?’
They have no influence in their lives or interest in Jesus; they’re still stuck in sin; or they’ve sinned yet again.
Before you write them off, remember - you were just as lost.
It required the same amount of love for God to want to save you.
It cost the same blood to save you.
Worship reveals our deepest places.
(16-18)
An encounter with Jesus reveals our deepest needs/hurts/sin
This is why some people avoid worship – they don’t want Jesus to know them at their deepest levels
Having our lives revealed can be uncomfortable.
ILLUST - Preaching class- one of the most uncomfortable part of class was having to watch ourselves preach on video.
We saw all our imperfections revealed.
Thankfully, God answered my prayers and the DVD player broke when it was my turn.
Jesus reveals these things in our lives in order to redeem them.
**What if Jesus met you at your place of shame and calls out your deepest sin?
Would you go to the well?
Are you ok with the fact that worship - an encounter with Jesus will reveal your deepest places?
If not, you need to ask yourself why - Is there a sin you are unwilling to repent of or a pain you are unwilling to release?
The woman didn’t see this as bad thing.
Why?
Because Jesus offered grace.
Grace is found in worship.
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Jesus is the only one who could truly judge the woman.
Jesus will come again to judge.
We will have or lives revealed - the question is, do you want it revealed with Jesus as Redeemer or Judge?
Jesus revealed that he had already known her darkest sins and while everyone else was avoiding her, there Jesus was choosing to meet her and speak with her.
Jesus transforms worship.
(20-26)
(from a location and tradition to spirit and truth).
Believe me (pisteuo)
The woman understood worship to be a place and tradition Jesus redefined worship as spirit and truth
- The Samaritan woman wanted an external debate to avoid an internal exposure
It is always easier to talk theology than to deal with truth that is personally distressing.
- D. A. Carson
Sometimes we can use our struggles of our thoughts about God as an excuse to not obey God.
The woman was concerned with the place of worship and the tradition of the Samaritans as opposed to the tradition of the Jews.
As she has been up until now, she was totally missing the point.
Before Jesus, the presence of God was physically located.
Now, because of Jesus, the presence of God is spiritually applied.
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